Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective informal Tending to cause a
clatter ;noisy and possiblycumbersome .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective a rattling sound as of hard things striking together
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word clattery.
Examples
-
Bruce wants to move seats because he can't hear me; it's a lovely place but it is… clattery.
Bruce Robinson: 'I'm just going to take my liver for a wash' 2011
-
How about the sound of the words — soft consonants, sliding like water over stones, or clattery consonants banging around?
-
I recall caroms as a delightfully clattery sort of a game.
-
Beck composed (but does not sing, though he shows up alone on other tracks) songs for Pilgrim's band, Sex Bob-Omb, which are uniformly clattery and brief and un-Beck-like.
-
Their horses were skittish, all white rolling eyes and sweaty flanks, picking their way on clattery hooves across the cobblestones and through the milling crowds to form a ragged barricade between the unruly crowd and the park, the Polo Grounds.
DIAMOND RUBY Joseph Wallace 2010
-
Their horses were skittish, all white rolling eyes and sweaty flanks, picking their way on clattery hooves across the cobblestones and through the milling crowds to form a ragged barricade between the unruly crowd and the park, the Polo Grounds.
DIAMOND RUBY Joseph Wallace 2010
-
Their horses were skittish, all white rolling eyes and sweaty flanks, picking their way on clattery hooves across the cobblestones and through the milling crowds to form a ragged barricade between the unruly crowd and the park, the Polo Grounds.
DIAMOND RUBY Joseph Wallace 2010
-
This gets at least one vote for the most pointless piano concerto in the active repertoire, a clattery stream of scales and arpeggios that the pianist must deliver at top speed in a desperate search to keep the audience from expiring out of sheer boredom at the lack of any musical ideas.
Archive 2007-08-01 Lisa Hirsch 2007
-
She had loud, clattery doorknob earrings of her own and wore a gray sweatshirt that said MOMS RULE! in plaid stitching.
Miss Misery Andy Greenwald 2006
-
She had loud, clattery doorknob earrings of her own and wore a gray sweatshirt that said MOMS RULE! in plaid stitching.
Miss Misery Andy Greenwald 2006
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.